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Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager written in C, designed to be small, simple and fast. It sits in your tray and maintains a history of clipboard entries.

Features

Keeps a clipboard history.

Various view options to display items the way you like it.

Daemon mode; guard your clipboard contents when you close applications.

Global hotkeys to display your items quickly.

Perform custom commands using clipboard contents.

The Daemon Mode

Runs completely in the background and transparent to the end user. When an application is closed, the contents of the clipboard (if copied from the just-closed window) are generally lost. This is a source of frustration for many users who have just switched from Windows to Linux. The daemon mode option of Parcellite allows for pasting said contents into another application after the first application is closed. This is the behavior that many Windows users have come to expect. The result can be achieved without adding extra visible options or icons commonly associated with full-featured clipboards. There is no need for added complexity or point-and-click interaction – just press Ctrl-V (as opposed to some program-specific combination which the typical user would not know about).

Benefit to Fedora

Reduces chance for losing work or information.

Lessons barrier to Linux adoption.

Scores user-friendliness points.

Makes Fedora more attractive compared with other distributions.

Scope

Requires updating the default session to include 'parcellite -d.'

Requires waiting for the next stable release of Parcellite (0.9). (Currently in SVN.)

Requires some method for notifying users who prefer to use another clipboard manager (or including self-deactivation).